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Sweet :: Sweet (superl.) Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair; as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion..

Doxy :: Doxy (n.) A loose wench; a disreputable sweetheart.

Redolency :: Redolency (n.) The quality of being redolent; sweetness of scent; pleasant odor; fragrance.

Sweetbread :: Sweet (v. t.) To sweeten.

Phloroglucin :: Phloroglucin (n.) A sweet white crystalline substance, metameric with pyrogallol, and obtained by the decomposition of phloretin, and from certain gums, as catechu, kino, etc. It belongs to the class of phenols. [Called also phloroglucinol.].

Gum Ammoniac :: Gum ammoniac (n.) The concrete juice (gum resin) of an umbelliferous plant, the Dorema ammoniacum. It is brought chiefly from Persia in the form of yellowish tears, which occur singly, or are aggregated into masses. It has a peculiar smell, and a nauseous, sweet taste, followed by a bitter one. It is inflammable, partially soluble in water and in spirit of wine, and is used in medicine as an expectorant and resolvent, and for the formation of certain plasters..

Sweeten :: Sweeten (a.) To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter; as, to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected; to sweeten the air..

Felonwort :: Felonwort (n.) The bittersweet nightshade (Solanum Dulcamara). See Bittersweet.

Convallamarin :: Convallamarin (n.) A white, crystalline, poisonous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the lily of the valley (Convallaria Majalis). Its taste is first bitter, then sweet..

Zamang :: Zamang (n.) An immense leguminous tree (Pithecolobium Saman) of Venezuela. Its branches form a hemispherical mass, often one hundred and eighty feet across. The sweet pulpy pods are used commonly for feeding cattle. Also called rain tree..

Glycyrrhizin :: Glycyrrhizin (n.) A glucoside found in licorice root (Glycyrrhiza), in monesia bark (Chrysophyllum), in the root of the walnut, etc., and extracted as a yellow, amorphous powder, of a bittersweet taste..

Perfume :: Perfume (v.) The scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor; fragrance; aroma..

Sweeten :: Sweeten (a.) To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea..

Flame :: Flame (n.) A person beloved; a sweetheart.

Comfit :: Comfit (n.) A dry sweetmeat; any kind of fruit, root, or seed preserved with sugar and dried; a confection..

Batata :: Batata (n.) An aboriginal American name for the sweet potato (Ipomaea batatas).

Styryl :: Styrone (n.) A white crystalline substance having a sweet taste and a hyacinthlike odor, obtained by the decomposition of styracin; -- properly called cinnamic, / styryl, alcohol..

Sweetwort :: Sweetwood (n.) The timber of the tree Oreodaphne Leucoxylon, growing in Jamaica. The name is also applied to the timber of several other related trees..

Whig :: Whig (n.) Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage..

Junketries :: Junketries (n. pl.) Sweetmeats.

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